The Royal Society of Edinburgh has selected 19 of the University’s academics to join its prestigious group of fellows. This year, the focus was on those who have had a positive impact during the Covid-19 crisis, through academic research, their support of the arts or for playing a key role in communications around the pandemic.
Congratulations to all those appointed.
Professor Helen Bond – Chair of Christian Origins and Head of the School of Divinity
Professor Holly Branigan – Professor of Psychology of Language and Cognition
Professor Michael Eddleston – Professor of Clinical Toxicology
Professor Andrew Horne – Professor of Gynaecology and Reproductive Sciences
Professor Alison Hulme – Professor of Synthesis and Chemical Biology
Professor Alvin Jackson HonMRIA – Richard Lodge Professor of History
Professor Aggelos Kiayias – Chair in Cyber Security and Privacy
Professor Lesley McAra CBE – Chair of Penology, Assistant Principal Community Relations and Director of the Edinburgh Futures Institute
Professor Nicola McEwen – Professor of Territorial Politics and Co-Director of the Centre on Constitutional Change
Professor Andrew McIntosh – Professor of Biological Psychiatry and Head of Division of Psychiatry
Professor Ross McLure – Professor of Extragalactic Astrophysics
Professor Peter Mathieson FMedSci – Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University
Professor Richard Mellanby – Professor of Comparative Medicine
Professor Alexander Murphy – Chair of Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics
Professor E. Elizabeth Patton – Personal Chair of Chemical Genetics and MRC Investigator
Professor Eleanor Riley FMedSci – Professor of Immunology and Infectious Disease
Professor Devi Sridhar – Chair in Global Public Health and Director, Global Health Governance Programme
Professor Christopher Williams – Chair of Machine Learning
Professor James F Wilson – Personal Chair in Human Genetics